knout

Example Sentences

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The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moscow's long-suffering moviegoers glowed vindictively: the managers of the city's neighborhood moviehouses were at last writhing under the official knout.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new, obnoxiously corporate-modeled, self-franchising Guggenheim may run on laptops, but what it really needs is an editorial pencil -- if not a knout.

From Time Magazine Archive

Elizabeth and the Exiles has formed part of her reading, and Madame de Roni will dream every night of the knout till she reaches her dear native land.—But now to business.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James

These are the fearful scourges, the whips worse than the knout, which lie at the back of Capital, and give it its power. 

From The Vagabond in Literature by Rickett, Arthur